WIC Online Colloquium

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Martin Spielauer, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

MicroWELT – Microsimulation of Disaggregated National Transfer Accounts for the Comparative Study of Welfare State Regimes

Tuesday, May 18^th, 2021, 13:00-14:00 (CEST)

Please register for the presentation here until one day before the presentation 10:00 (CEST): https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/calendar/wic-colloquium/registration/

Abstract

This colloquium introduces MicroWELT, a microsimulation platform developed alongside the Horizon 2020 WELTRANSIM (Welfare Transfer Simulation) project. MicroWELT projects the interactions between welfare state regimes, welfare transfers, and population ageing, accounting for educational change, life expectancy differentials, and changing family patterns. Beyond the WELTRASNIM project, microWELT provides a versatile platform already used in various projects related to health, employment, and care. MicroWELT integrates detailed socio-demographic projections with disaggregated National Transfer Accounts (NTAs). We study how disaggregating NTAs by family type and education affects NTA indicators and generational accounts. Our results show that indicators based on disaggregated data can give a very distinct picture of the economic effects of population ageing.

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